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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Robert L Sanders, post: 2627321, member: 84591&quot;]With a whopping collection of approx. 16 coins, my favorite is this one:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z130/casionerd/IMG_0798_zps3qluh13r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z130/casionerd/IMG_0795_zpstatzuou2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse is Claudius II</p><p>Reverse is an eagle with CONSECRATO</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not big.&nbsp; It&#039;s not in the best condition.&nbsp; It&#039;s not valuable.</p><p><br /></p><p>I just love it because:</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s so smooth.&nbsp; It&#039;s consistent with only two colors; black and green.&nbsp; It was an unidentifiable crusty mess when I got it.&nbsp; There&#039;s some kind of cylindrical impression behind the head.&nbsp; Anyone looking at this would know it&#039;s an ancient Roman coin.&nbsp; I can hold this thing in my hand and imagine that across an ocean over 1,700 years ago a person held this same coin and probably looked at it just as I am doing now.&nbsp; What was their life like?&nbsp; Who and what did they care about most?&nbsp; You get the idea.</p><p><br /></p><p>My poor cell phone pictures just don&#039;t do it justice.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the song of the hour, it&#039;s one that no one on here will like but the back half from about 2:20 on is amazing.&nbsp; I suppose it&#039;s because it was done by two eleven-year-old girls.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]sN7FEEwX4D0[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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